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#348 | The Cambridge Five Part III | Beer & Betrayal

English Learning for Curious Minds

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Philby's Defection to the Soviet Union

It didn't take long for Philby to confess in writing that he was a double agent. A few days later, on the 23rd of January, he boarded a Soviet ship bound for Odessa and disappeared. The third of the Cambridge Five had defected. Some have suggested that Philby was allowed to defect to avoid even more embarrassment for British intelligence community.

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